Vadim Osmanov

Osman Vadinov (died 28 June 2016) was an Islamic State fighter from Chechnya who was one of the 2016 Istanbul Ataturk Airport attack suicide bombers.

Biography
Osman Vadinov was born in Chechnya, Russia to a Sunni Muslim Chechen family. He became a radical due to the Russian Army's invasion of Chechnya and the ensuing Islamist insurgency, and he headed to Syria to join the Islamic State during the Syrian Civil War. Later, Akhmed Chatayev recruited Vadinov for a martyrdom operation, and he met up with a Kyrgyz fighter and an Uzbek fighter for the mission. In 2015, he crossed into Turkey from the IS stronghold of Raqqa and, on 28 June 2016, he entered the Istanbul Ataturk Airport. He opened fire on passengers before the first security checkpoint and proceeded to blow himself up; 44 people would be killed in the attack and 239 wounded.